Personal Stories and Interviews with Experts

By: Erin Stair Since April is Autism Awareness Month, and since the Center for Disease Control just came out with the glaring statistic showing 1 in 50 kids are being diagnosed with autism, here’s an interview I did with Vitamin D expert Dr. John Cannell. I am also posting this interview, because it’s all about Vitamin D, […]

Hi guys. This is an interview I did a few years ago with psychiatrist Daniel Carlat, M.D, when I served as editor in chief for The Alternative Mental Health News. Since the questionable efficacy of antidepressants is in the news (again) and “anti-psychiatry” is trending ( again), I thought it was timely to share. In […]

Interview & Blog by Dr. Erin Stair Hi guys. Below is a fun, casual, organic, informative and entertaining conversation I had with Christopher and Robyn Alesich. They are married to each other, polygamists and founders of SisterWives.Com, the largest polygamy dating site and the only polygamy matchmaking site on the web. They were also delightful […]

I’m posting an interview I did with Attorney Beth Maloney, author of Saving Sammy, on a very important topic that could affect up to 50% of kids diagnosed with OCD. Is it truly OCD? Beth will share her perspective below: Beth is a successful attorney who has represented both writers and producers, celebrity entertainers and […]

Did you ever meet a random stranger, smile politely, make friendly chitchat, go through the rehearsed motions of civility, casually end the conversation and walk away, happy the encounter is over, happy to be on your way, while thinking you’ll never see or talk to that person again? We all have. Have you ever been […]

(This is a guest post written by Dr. Douglas Watt, Ph.D. His bio is included at the end of the piece.) Depression: It’s Not a Chemical Imbalance: In Part I on depression, I talked about the uncritical acceptance of a cultural meme propagated by big Pharma and by mainstream Psychiatry that depression can be meaningfully […]

Written by Gabriel Nathan In Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”, perhaps the most popular operetta ever written in the English language, the comic baritone Ko-Ko and the ugly, aging contralto Katisha have a delightful duet right near the end of the show called, “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” in which they […]

Hi gang, Dr. Eeks here. I was really happy to interview expert Dr. Joseph Burgo on narcissism, sociopathy, dating and more. Here is a copy of his bio from his website: “Joseph Burgo, Ph.D. has practiced psychotherapy for more than 30 years, holding licenses as a marriage and family therapist and clinical psychologist. He […]

It frequently comes as quite a shock when people learn that depression is now the most expensive condition facing Western societies, when you put together the cost of treatment with the cost of lost productivity (including the devastating cost of total disability for an unfortunate few who are knocked off the road completely […]

We are dangerously close in the United States to spending 20% of our GNP on healthcare – this year it will top $3.2 trillion or ~$10,000 per person. Yet we lag behind virtually all other Western democracies in nearly every health biomarker, including longevity, where we rank an astonishing 34th, despite being the wealthiest […]

Hi guys! Today I have the distinct pleasure of posting just one question with just one answer from my friend and Krav Maga expert, Moshe Katz. Moshe is the founder and CEO of Israeli Krav International. He has practiced martial arts for 30 years and is certified by Wingate, Israel’s national martial arts certification board. […]

I had the great pleasure of doing an interview with Holly Christensen, who is the founder of Alaska- based The Magic Yarn Project. Her story recently went viral, but in case you missed it, The Magic Yarn Project is about creating Disney-styled princess wigs for kids with cancer. As Holly mentioned, “It’s been so fulfilling to […]

I’m honored to post a guest blog written by Susan Hayes, the incredible mom of Jillian Hayes. Jillian was a beautiful girl and avid soccer player who was diagnosed with Stage IV Melanoma in 2010, when she was just a teenager. When I first started talking to Susan, I said to her, “Your daughter looks […]